CBC Sports is the division of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its E ...

responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on

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, CBCSports.ca, and

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. (The CBC's French-language Radio-Canada network also produces sports programming.) Once the country's dominant sports broadcaster, in recent years it has lost many of its past signature properties – such as the

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baseball, Canadian Curling Association championships, the

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for a period, the

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, and the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

– to the cable specialty channels TSN and

Sportsnet Sportsnet is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary sports broadcasting, sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture betw ...

. The CBC has maintained partial rights to the NHL as part of a sub-licensing agreement with current rightsholder

Rogers Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties. Operations Current television brands owned by Rogers include two television sys ...

(maintaining the Saturday-night ''

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'' and playoff coverage), although this coverage is produced by Sportsnet, as opposed to the CBC itself as was the case in the past. As a result of funding reductions from the federal government, increased costs for licensing, and decreased revenues, in April 2014, the CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sports broadcasting rights. The CBC has since used its digital platforms to provide overflow coverage of events not on television, and simulcasts of television coverage. Since then, the CBC's in-house sports coverage has been largely focused on

Olympic sport Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics included 32 sports; the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. Each Olympic sport is represented at the Internation ...

s, other domestic

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and semi-professional competitions such as the

Canadian Hockey League The Canadian Hockey League (CHL; , LCH) is an umbrella organization that represents the three Canada-based major junior ice hockey leagues. The CHL was founded in 1975 as the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, and is composed of its three me ...

(CHL), along with coverage of Spruce Meadows'

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competitions. The majority of CBC Television's sports coverage is broadcast on weekend afternoons, under the blanket title ''CBC Sports Presents'' (formerly ''Road to the Olympic Games'' from 2015 to 2022, and ''CBC Sports Weekend'' prior to 2015). CBC Sports also streams all of its programming, as well as other event coverage not shown on television, via its website and digital platforms. Former CEO of Curling Canada Greg Stremlaw was the head of CBC Sports from April 10, 2015 to January 2019.

Sports properties

Current/upcoming

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and Pan Am * 2027 Pan American Games *

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Hockey *

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1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

–present) **Produced by

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Rogers Sports & Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties. Operations Current television brands owned by Rogers include two television sy ...

) since the 2014–15 season under a sub-licensing deal. **Weekly Saturday night doubleheader and at least one playoff game each night a playoff game is played. *

(2021–present) **Early-season weekend games across its constituent leagues. **Additional streaming regular-season games. * U Sports Hockey *

Professional Women's Hockey League The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; , LPHF) is a women's professional ice hockey league in North America. The league comprises eight teams, four each from the United States and Canada. The teams play a Season (sports), regular season ...

(2023–present). **Produced in-house by the league. **Weekly Saturday afternoon game of the week on CBC Television **Additional streaming games. Alpine Skiing * FIS World Cup races Basketball * FIBA 3x3 World Cup (2012-present) Baseball * Little League Canadian Championships Cricket * Global T20 Canada **All matches streaming (2023–), championship match on CBC Television. Equine sports * Spruce Meadows Figure Skating *

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and other International Skating Union competitions, excluding domestic events (rights owned by TSN) Football * Vanier Cup - beginning with the 55th (2019) edition * U Sports Football Rugby * Toronto Wolfpack (streaming) Track & Field *

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics one-day meet competitions. The inaugural season was ...

events *

World Athletics Championships The World Athletics Championships, known as the IAAF World Championships in Athletics until 2019, are a biennial sport of athletics, athletics competition organized by World Athletics, formerly International Association of Athletics Federations ...

* U Sports Athletics Other Sports * U Sports volleyball

Past properties

Hockey * AHL on CBC – 10 games during the 2010–11 season Horse racing *

Queen's Plate The King's Plate (known as the Queen's Plate from 1860 to 1901 and 1952 to 2022) is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, having been founded in 1860. It is run at a distance of for a ma ...

Soccer *

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

Toronto FC Toronto Football Club is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Toronto. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (MLS), Eastern Conference. The team plays its home matc ...

and

MLS Cup MLS Cup is the annual championship game of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the culmination of the MLS Playoffs. The game is held in November or December and pits the winner of the Eastern Conference Final against the winner of the Western Confere ...

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

) *

2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 16th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup (formerly called the FIFA World Youth Championship), hosted by Canada from 30 June to 22 July 2007. Argentina defeated the Czech Republic in the title game by the scor ...

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1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

) *

CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 4 ...

Canadian Championship The Canadian Championship () is an annual soccer tournament contested by Canadian professional teams. The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and a berth in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. It is contested by Major League Soccer sides Toronto FC, Va ...

(

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

) - Most games show live on bold, then on tape delay on CBC. *

Canadian Premier League The Canadian Premier League (CPL or CanPL; ) is a professional Association football, soccer league in Canada and the highest level of the Canadian soccer league system. The league comprises eight teams, from five of provinces and territories of ...

– 20 games (10 streaming only). Baseball *

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

** Major League Baseball on CBC - (

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

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1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

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1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

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2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

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Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos () were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in the National League (baseball), National League ...

- 1969–

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

***

All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game that showcases the best players (the "stars") of a sports league. The exhibition is between two teams organized solely for the event, usually representing the league's teams based on region or division, bu ...

/Postseason/

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB). It has been contested since between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winning team, determined through a best- ...

- 1969–1996 Multi-sports competitions * Olympics on CBC **

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1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

– 1988,

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

** Summer Paralympics -

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* 1999 Pan American Games - (sublicenced to TSN) *

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2015 Parapan American Games The 2015 Parapan American Games, officially the V Parapan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 ParaPan-Am Games, were a major international multi-sport event for Disabled sports, athletes with disabilities, celebrated in the tra ...

- (soccer sublicensed to Sportsnet) * 2019 Pan American Games/ 2019 Parapan American Games (streaming only) * 2023 Pan American Games/ 2023 Parapan American Games (streaming only) * 2017 North American Indigenous Games Basketball *

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Canadian Elite Basketball League The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL; ) is the premier men's professional basketball league in Canada, as recognized by Canada Basketball. The CEBL was founded in 2017 and began play in 2019 with six teams all owned and operated by owner ...

** All games streaming (2019–2022), 7 regular-season games and the championship game on CBC Television (2020–2022) Football *

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) Figure Skating *

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and Canadian Figure Skating Championships Curling *Cross Canada Curling - 1961–1965 *CBC Championship Curling - 1966–1972 *CBC Curling Classic - 1973–1979 *Curling on CBC#CCA on CBC, Canadian Curling Association - 1961–2008 *Grand Slam of Curling (weekend coverage of selected events) Canoe Sprint *2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Tennis *Canadian Open (tennis), Canadian Open (Semi-finals and finals through 2015)

Notable personalities (past and present)

*Ernie Afaganis *Steve Armitage *David Archer (quarterback), David Archer *John Badham (sportscaster), John Badham *Leo Cahill *Cassie Campbell, Cassie Campbell-Pascall *Don Chevrier *Don Cherry (ice hockey), Don Cherry *Bob Cole (announcer), Bob Cole *Ward Cornell *James Curry (Canadian football), James Curry *Chris Cuthbert *Keith Dancy *John Davidson (ice hockey), John Davidson *Jason de Vos *Gary Dornhoefer *Steve Douglas (sportscaster), Steve Douglas *Don Duguid *Terry Evanshen *Darren Flutie *Greg Frers *Elliotte Friedman *Joe Galat *Danny Gallivan *Bob Goldham *Tom Harrington (journalist), Tom Harrington *Mike Harris (curler), Mike Harris *Foster Hewitt *Bill Hewitt (sportscaster), Bill Hewitt *Kelly Hrudey *Dave Hodge *Jim Hughson *Dick Irvin Jr. *Brenda Irving *Russ Jackson *Colleen Jones *Khari Jones *Dan Kelly (sportscaster), Dan Kelly *Danny Kepley *Ron Lancaster *Mark Lee (sportscaster), Mark Lee *Ron MacLean *Jeff Marek *Norm Marshall *Doug Maxwell *Joan McCusker *Brian McFarlane *Wes McKnight *Mike Milbury *Greg Millen *Gord Miller (sportscaster), Gord Miller *Sean Millington *Howie Meeker *Bob Moir *Harry Neale *Scott Oake *Mitch Peacock *Andi Petrillo *Bruce Rainnie *Mickey Redmond *Chico Resch *Ted Reynolds (Canadian television), Ted Reynolds *Frank Rigney *Jim Robson *Paul Romanuk *Scott Russell (commentator), Scott Russell *Sandra Schmirler *Craig Simpson *P.J. Stock *Glen Suitor *Eric Tillman *Alex Trebek *Chris Walby *Jack Wells (sportscaster), Jack Wells *John Wells (sportscaster), John Wells *Brian Williams (sportscaster), Brian Williams *Don Wittman

Directors

*Len Casey (1965–1967) *Ron Hunka (1967–1970) *Don Goodwin (1970–1975) *Gordon Craig (sports executive), Gordon Craig (1975–1977) *John Hudson (1977–1980) *Ron Devion (1980–1982) *Denis Harvey (1982–1983) *Don MacPherson (broadcast executive), Don MacPherson (1984–1988) *Arthur Smith (producer), Arthur Smith (1988–1990) *Alan Clark (television executive), Alan Clark (1990 – December 8, 1999) *Nancy Lee (producer), Nancy Lee (December 9, 1999 – February 28, 2007) *Scott Moore (television executive), Scott Moore (March 1, 2007 – April 3, 2011) *Jeffrey Orridge (April 4, 2011 – April 9, 2015) * Greg Stremlaw (April 10, 2015 – January, 2019) *Chris Wilson (July 2, 2019 – present)

Hall of Fame

CBC Sports Hall of Fame recognizes those broadcasters of CBC Sports who have made a unique and lasting contribution to CBC and to the sports broadcasting industry. * Ernie Afaganis * Don E. Brown * Alan Clark (television executive), Alan Clark * Gordon Craig (sports executive), Gordon Craig * Margaret Davis * Tom Fisk * Danny Gallivan * Geoff Gowan * Foster Hewitt * Dick Irvin Jr. * Terry Leibel * Joan Mead * Howie Meeker * Bob Moir * George Retzlaff * Ted Reynolds (Canadian television), Ted Reynolds * Fred Sgambatti * Jim Thompson * Fred Walker * Don Wittman

Proposed CBC SportsPlus channel

In 2008, the CBC received CRTC approval for a sports specialty channel, "CBC SportsPlus", which would have aired a mix of amateur and professional sports. Commercial broadcasters, including CTVglobemedia, Rogers Media, and Sportsnet 360, The Score filed petitons against the channel for being unduly competitive with existing sports channels (therefore violating the CRTC's then-policy of genre protection among specialty channels). They showed particular concern for the CBC stating that it planned to devote 75% of its programming to professional sports. The CRTC approved the license application, but restricted it to only devoting 30% of its schedule per-week to professional sports, with only 10% of this quota allowed to be devoted specifically to "professional stick and/or ball sports", which placed major restrictions on the network's intended remit, including hockey and lacrosse coverage. The restrictions effectively made the application and license non-viable, and paired with the CBC's budgetary restrictions, the network never commenced operations.

References

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